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SHOW ME THE MONEY: Energy secretary nominee Ernest Moniz holds as much as $500,000 in stock in an environmental consulting firm with ties to the natural gas industry, financial disclosure documents revealed late Friday — more than a week after his connection with the firm began drawing attention from anti-fracking groups alleging a conflict of interest.

If confirmed as secretary, Moniz is promising to divest his shares in that company, Virginia-based ICF International, as well as other energy-related stock and corporate positions, according to a letter he filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. The documents disclose that Moniz has had financial arrangements with a broad array of energy-related businesses, including General Electric and BP, which paid him nearly $6,000 for consulting. Darius Dixon runs it down: http://politico.pro/YoxnwL

AS FOR McCARTHY: EPA administrator nominee Gina McCarthy’s disclosures show she doesn’t face many of the same conflict-of-interest issues as Moniz or Interior secretary nominee Sally Jewell, thanks in part to her having stepped away from the private world in 2009 when the Senate confirmed McCarthy to her current post as EPA’s air chief. McCarthy does not report holding any stock, but does have between $133,000 and $570,000 across 20 investment funds.

What about Jewell? In case Pros need a refresher on the financials for Jewell, who was nominated before Moniz and McCarthy and whose documents Darren Goode wrote about early last month: http://politico.pro/XkCVKi

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GOP PUSHES AGAIN ON KXL: Apparently emboldened by the Hoeven budget amendment that passed with a filibuster-proof majority and was widely viewed as a tacit approval of Keystone XL, Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) used the GOP’s weekly address to push Obama again on the pipeline. “The Keystone XL Pipeline is a no-brainer,” Terry said. “It’s passed muster through several environmental reviews. It’s picked up support from a broad, grassroots coalition of unions and employers. Public backing has risen to 70 percent. And just last week, the Democratic-run Senate endorsed Keystone with a filibuster-proof of 62 votes — a bipartisan show of support rarely seen in Washington.” Watch: http://youtu.be/pE72kjPGaJ0

But wait, there’s more: The Omaha World-Herald writes about how Terry help turn a little-known project in 2011 into one of Washington’s biggest political bones of contention: “He first took up the Keystone cause during a 2011 brainstorming session of top Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Republicans had just won back the House, and the committee chairman, Rep. Fred Upton, asked members for suggestions on energy policy initiatives. Terry told his colleagues about a little-known pipeline that was causing quite a stir back home and getting the environmental community all ‘bent out of shape.’” OWH: http://bit.ly/10lDVdG

PIPELINE SPILLS ENERGIZE ANTI-KEYSTONE ACTIVISTS: An ExxonMobil pipeline carrying heavy Canadian crude leaked thousands of barrels of oil near the town of Mayflower, Ark., on Friday afternoon. The leak was detected and the pipeline quickly shut down. But coming just days after a train carrying Canadian tar sands oil spilled some 15,000 gallons in Minnesota, environmental groups are pointing to the dangers of transporting the stuff via the Keystone XL. “This must have felt like a nightmare for the families suddenly having to evacuate their homes, but it’s a glimpse into some of the very real consequences of building the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry the same dirty tar sands oil across the country,” Dan Gatti of Environment America said. Reuters has more on the spill and cleanup: http://reut.rs/XPmH6D

A123: WE HAVEN’T REALLY CHANGED OUR NAME: After news that A123 Systems had changed its name to B456 Systems as part of the purchase agreement with Wanxiang blew up on the internet late last week, the company put out a statement to say nothing is really changing. The name change was for A123 Systems, Inc. — the unit which essentially was left a shell after all of its assets were sold. The new company, operating under Wanxiang, remains named A123 Systems, LLC. “This change was ironically made to reduce confusion about the difference between the A123 businesses which are now operating successfully under Wanxiang's ownership and those elements of the company still in the bankruptcy process,” the company writes on its blog: http://bit.ly/XkzAL6

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CHESAPEAKE APPOINTS ACTING CEO: Chesapeake Energy has chosen Steven Dixon, its chief operating officer, to fill in as CEO while the company continues to look for a permanent replacement for co-founder Aubrey McClendon. Tulsa World: “Dixon also will be part of a three-person Office of the Chairman established by the Chesapeake board of directors. The office includes non-executive Chairman Archie Dunham, the former Conoco CEO hired in the midst of the company's liquidity crisis last year; and Domenic J. Dell'Osso Jr., chief financial officer of Chesapeake. … Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake is continuing its search for a permanent CEO with the help of executive headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles.”

ME FIRST — FITZGIBBON PICKS UP CAP’S DIPASQUALE, OTHERS: The PR firm FitzGibbon Media is adding three new names to its D.C. operation, including Christina DiPasquale of the Center for American Progress's press team. DiPasquale will be FitzGibbon's media relations director. The firm has also picked up Hilary Nachem, formerly new media director for Tammy Baldwin's Senate campaign, as digital director, and Sabrina Caprioli, the top booking coordinator for the Obama campaign's Florida operation, as a media relations strategist. FitzGibbon’s clients include the youth-focused Energy Action Coalition, climate change group Forecast the Facts and the Waterkeeper Alliance.

APRIL FOOLS ITEMS: Remember, if someone pranks you after noon, the joke’s on them — and your morning host plans on having a bit of a lie-in until this all blows over.

— Al Gore's Climate Reality Project today will “announce” a new partnership with ESPN to create a new sports channel dedicated to “new extreme sports made possible through a changing environment due to climate change.” Events on the faux channel will reportedly include “hurricane wind-surfing, dirtboarding (previously known as snowboarding), dry riverbed kayaking, blizzard soccer [and] hurricane sandbag-tossing events.”

— Tom Steyer’s campaign against Stephen Lynch over his support for the Keystone XL pipeline is putting out a video today purportedly from “Big Oil and the April Fool’s Association of America.” In it, actors portraying oil executives discuss why they want Lynch in the Senate. “We’re supporting Steve Lynch because he’s one of only 26 Democrats who are supporting the Keystone pipeline — and the 35 permanent out-of-state jobs it will create,” mugs one actor playing TransCanada pipelines chief Alex Pourbaix. Video: http://youtu.be/tjp6ByWIZTw

SPEAKING OF THE ANTI-LYNCH CAMPAIGN: When you’re bankrolling a campaign against a pro-Keystone XL Democrat, the numbers start to add up quickly. Tom Steyer’s NextGen PAC, the vehicle Steyer is using to go after Stephen Lynch in his run for Massachusetts’ Senate seat, has now spent $126,000 in just over a week. The most recent expenditures include $38,100 for consulting services from the Arkansas-based Markham Group and $54,700 for the aerial banners NextGen flew over the Boston area on Thursday, the date of Lynch’s first debate against primary opponent Ed Markey.

— The Independent Oil & Gas Association has filed a complaint with New York authorities that Artists Against Fracking is violating state lobbying laws. AP: http://bit.ly/10dNsV2

— A district judge has sentenced Jeffrey Gunselman, who pled guilty in December to faking biodiesel fuel credits, to 188 months in federal prison, a fine of $175,000 and $54.9 million in restitution. UPI: http://bit.ly/165E9aK

— Israel has begun extracting natural gas from an offshore field, part of a move for the nation to produce all of its own energy. New York Times: http://nyti.ms/XQYwoz

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